BCL Senior Associate Oliver Schneider-Sikorsky and Associate Cindy Laing have produced a practice note on ’’Social media offences and claims’’ co-authored in partnership with Persphone Bridgman Baker of Cater-Ruck.
BCL partners Michael Drury and Julian Hayes have written the chapter titled ‘Investigations In England & Wales: Practitioners’ Perspective’ for Global Investigations Review: The Guide to Cyber Investigations – Second Edition.
BCL associate Greta Barkle and legal assistant Guevara Leacock’s article ‘The Online Safety Bill – Does It Go Far Enough?’ has been published by Lawyer Monthly.
BCL partner Julian Hayes and legal assistant Andrew Watson’s article examining the critical balance between human rights, privacy and the use of biometric technology by the police has been published in Police Professional.
BCL partner Julian Hayes and associate Suzanne Gallagher’s article ‘Algorithmic policing – “Trust is a must, not a nice to have”‘ has been published by Global Data Review.
“We want the UK….to be the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business”. With this ambitious aim, the Government has laid out its National Data Strategy, focusing on unlocking the value of data, establishing a pro-growth data protection regime, and championing international data flows to promote economic development. Already a feted success, the UK’s digital sector now stands behind only the US and China in global venture capital funding and directly employs more than 1.5 million people in London and other major UK cities. Despite its laudable aspiration, however, the Data Strategy signals post-Brexit regulatory intentions which risk inhibiting and choking off the future growth of this successful UK industrial sector.
In April 2019, the UK published an Online Harms White Paper proposing a broad new statutory duty of care for social media companies and platform providers to tackle widespread concerns about a host of online issues, from terrorist and child sexual abuse content to cyber bullying and trolling. More than 18 months on, BCL’s Greta Barkle asks where have the proposals got to?
As stricter, more complex, requirements in relation to anti-money laundering are implemented in the EU, distributed ledger technology (“DLT”) might offer an answer to streamlining know your client (“KYC”) processes and reducing the frustration around data sharing. In this article, Ami Amin and John Binns discuss what DLT is, what the current issues with KYC are and how blockchain technology (a type of DLT) could offer a solution to the issues presented by traditional KYC processes.
